Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Resources

This is a collection of useful resources for researching aviation related articles. With the exception of those listed in the "Questionable sources" section, these sources should pass WP:RS. If any editor wishes to question the reliability of a particular source, please bring the issue up on the talk page.

Editors can request access to specific articles or books or information on a specific topic at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request.

Country specific

 * 🇧🇪 Belgian Wings, civil and military aviation in Belgium.
 * 🇨🇦 Aeronautical Information Manual - Canada
 * 🇨🇦 Aviation Glossary - Canada
 * 🇨🇦 Nav Canada Publications, AIP, NOTAM manual, Airport Charts, etc.
 * 🇨🇦 Transport Canada Listing of Accepted Advanced Ultralights
 * 🇫🇷 - An atlas of French airfields from 1919-47.
 * 🇺🇸 Aeronautical Information Manual - USA
 * 🇺🇸 EAA List of Experimental Light-Sport Aircraft (E-LSA)
 * 🇺🇸 EAA List of Special Light-Sport Aircraft (S-LSA)

Worldwide

 * Aircraft Engine Historical Society - Engine Locator
 * Airways Magazine - A Global Review of Commercial Flight since 1994
 * Aviation Week magazine
 * Aviation Week archives - 100 years of archives (1916-2016)
 * AvWeb Weekly aviation news service
 * Cross and Cockade International - Early C20th aviation up to 1920.
 * Flightglobal - Most items are subscription only. However, some issues (particularly up to 1935) are available on the Internet Archive.
 * L'Aéronautique (1919-1940, in French)
 * L'Aérophile (1893-1947, in French)
 * Les Ailes (1921-1940, in French)
 * L'année Aéronautique (1919-1938, in French)
 * flightmapper.net - lists flights per airport and airline.
 * The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage - a listing of airfoils used on aircraft
 * Eurocontrol Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services - a reliable source for ICAO airline codes and callsigns
 * ICAO Aircraft Type Designators - official ICAO type designator information
 * Sailplane Directory
 * Speitel, Louise; Hill, Richard G.; FAA Technical Center. "Study of Benefits of Passenger Protective Breathing Equipment from Analysis of Past Accidents" March 1988 - analysis of accidents involving fire 1966-86

Current

 * 🇨🇦 Canada - current & historical (1982-)
 * 🇫🇷 France
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - current & historical (1919-)
 * 🇺🇸 United States - current & historical (1949-, i.e. excludes NCxxxxx etc)
 * Global Aircraft Registration and Airlines-Aircraft Operators Database Lookup

Historic

 * Golden Years of Aviation (Worldwide, 1919-39)
 * 🇨🇭 sr692.com, a complete listing of all Swissair aircraft.

Military

 * UK Serials Resource Centre - amateur site for UK military aircraft serials

Aircrashes

 * Investigations of Aircraft Accidents 1934-1965 - Civil Aeronautics Board
 * The Aviation Herald
 * Aviacrash website Accidents involving Dutch-registered airliners.
 * The Aviation Safety Network
 * The Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre

Investigating bodies
These bodies are responsible for the investigation of accidents and incidents involving civil aircraft.


 * Argentina: JIAAC {{in lang|es''': Junta de Investigaciones de Accidentes de Aviación Civil
 * Australia: ATSB - Australian Transport Safety Bureau
 * Austria: BAV Bundesanstalt für Verkehr
 * Azerbaijan: SCAA State Civil Aviation Administration (Azerbaijan)
 * Barbados: BCAD - Barbados Civil Aviation Department
 * Brazil: CENIPA - Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center
 * Canada: TSB - Transportation Safety Board of Canada
 * Chile: DGAC {{in lang|es''': - Directorate General of Civil Aviation
 * Colombia: UAEAC {{in lang|es''': - Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil
 * CIS: MAK {{in lang|ru''': - Interstate Aviation Committee. Covers most former Soviet Union states.
 * Cuba: IACC {{in lang|es''': - Instituto de Aeronáutica Civil de Cuba
 * Czech Republic: AAII - Air Accidents Investigation Institute
 * Congo (Republic of): ANAC {{in lang|fr''': Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile du Congo
 * Congo (Democratic Republic): Bureau Permanent d’Enquêtes d’Accidents et Incidents d’Aviation
 * Denmark: AIB -Accident Investigation Board Denmark
 * El Salvador: DIAI {{in lang|es''': - Departamento de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes
 * Ecuador: DAC {{in lang|es''': - Dirección General de Aviación Civil del Ecuador
 * Finland: AIB - Accident Investigation Board of Finland
 * France: BEA - Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile
 * Germany: BFU - Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung
 * Greece: AAIASB - Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board
 * Honduras: AAC - Autoridad de Aviación Civil (El Salvador)
 * Hong Kong: CAD - Civil Aviation Department (Hong Kong)
 * Hungary: KBSZ - Transportation Safety Bureau
 * Iceland: RF - Rannsóknarnefnd flugslysa
 * India: DGCA - Directorate General of Civil Aviation
 * Indonesia: NTSC - National Transportation Safety Committee
 * Iran: CAO - Iran Civil Aviation Organization
 * Republic of Ireland: AAIU - Air Accident Investigation Unit
 * Italy: ANSV - Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo
 * Jamaica: JCAA - Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority
 * Japan: JTSB - Japan Transport Safety Board
 * Kenya: KCAA - Kenya Civil Aviation Authority
 * Lebanon: LCAA - Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority
 * Luxembourg: Administration for Technical Investigations
 * Maldives: AICC - Accident Investigation Coordination Committee
 * Malta: BAAI - Bureau of Air Accident Investigation
 * Mexico: SCT - Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes
 * Moldova: CAA - Civil Aviation Administration, Department of Flight Safety
 * Netherlands: OVV - Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid
 * Nepal: CAAN - Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal
 * New Zealand: TAIC - Transport Accident Investigation Commission
 * Nicaragua: INAC Instituto Nicaragüense de Aeronáutica Civil
 * Nigeria: AIB Nigerian Accident Investigation Bureau
 * Norway: SHT - Statens Havarikommisjon for Transport
 * Pakistan: CAA - Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan
 * Peru: CIAA {{in lang|es''': - Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación
 * PRC: CAAC {{in lang|zh''': - Civil Aviation Administration of China
 * Philippines: CAAP - Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
 * Poland: PKBWL - Państwowa Komisja Badania Wypadków Lotniczych
 * Portugal: GPIAA {{in lang|pt''': - Gabinete de Prevenção e Investigação de Acidentes com Aeronaves
 * Saudi Arabia: GACA - General Authority of Civil Aviation
 * Serbia: CAAIC - Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Commission
 * Singapore: AAIB - Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore
 * Slovakia: - Aviation and Maritime Investigation Authority
 * South Africa: SACAA - South African Civil Aviation Authority
 * South Korea: ARAIB - Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board
 * Spain: CIAIAC {{in lang|es''': - Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil
 * Sweden: SHK - Statens Haverikommission
 * Switzerland: STSB - Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board
 * ROC: ASC - Aviation Safety Council
 * Thailand: DCA - Department of Civil Aviation (Thailand)
 * Trinidad and Tobago: CAA - Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority
 * UAE: GCAA - General Civil Aviation Authority
 * UK: AAIB - Air Accidents Investigation Branch
 * USA: NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board

Other civil aviation authorities

 * Isle of Man: Isle of Man Civil Aviation Administration

Regulations

 * 🇦🇺 Australian Civil Aviation Safety Regulations
 * 🇨🇦 Canadian Aviation Regulations
 * 🇺🇸 United States FARs

Type certificate data sheets

 * 🇨🇦 Type Certificates - Canada
 * 🇺🇸 Type Certificates - United States
 * 🇺🇸 Supplemental Type Certificates - United States
 * 🇺🇸 Airworthiness Directives - United States
 * 🇪🇺 EASA - Type Certificate Data Sheets - Aircraft

Newspaper sources

 * The Times Archive (subscription required, but may be accessible for UK editors who have a library card via their library's website). A wealth of info to be found, covers dates between 1785 and 1985.
 * California Digital Newspaper Collection

Questionable sources
Many potential sources do not fully meet WP:RS or may breach WP:COPYVIO. They may contain unreliable, false or illegally published information for a variety of reasons. In general, they should not be cited in an article. They should not generally be listed as "External links" either, per WP:ELNO.

On the other hand, some of the material in these sources may have been attributed to a respectable author and the author's own sources cited; such material is usually acceptable, provided Wikipedia takes care to cite the author and individual article.

Some questionable sources may still be useful when researching a topic, where they provide references to further and more reliable information, but should not be trusted or referenced in themselves.

For more about such sources, see WP:QUESTIONABLE.

Common sources to avoid
Some questionable sources are frequently cited by inexperienced editors in aviation-related articles, and are listed here for quick reference. The list includes both merely questionable and outright unreliable sources.


 * The Aerodrome, theaerodrome.com - see archived discussion at Reliability of theaerodrome.com.
 * Airframe Dossier or any other sub-site of Aerial Visuals, aerialvisuals.ca - hobby or crowdsourced content, not peer reviewed. See discussion.
 * Airwar.ru, airwar.ru, English-language version Sky Corner, home page airwar.ru/indexe.html - widely reported to be unreliable and/or copyvio. See for example this archived discussion.
 * Aviastar, aviastar.org (not to be confused with the airline Aviastar-TU) - see notes at WikiProject Aircraft/Aviastar.
 * Black Sun Redux, greyfalcon.us - fantasy garbage unlimited.
 * GlobalSecurity.org, globalsecurity.org - unreliable and copyright violation news scrapings. See RSN discussion.
 * Kites, Birds and Stuff, by P.D. Stemp - book series, self-published and comprising indiscriminate scrapings from everybody else he could lay his hands on, including Wikipedia. It is ostensibly published by Lulu.com, but that is a print-on-demand online self-publishing service.
 * Luft '46, luft46.com - see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Resources
 * LuftArchiv.de, luftarchiv.de - apparently self-published, not peer reviewed.
 * Military Factory, militaryfactory.com - see here and here on WP:RSN.
 * Nevington War Museum, nevingtonwarmuseum.com - cites Wikipedia among other online sites.
 * PlaneCrashInfo.com, planecrashinfo.com - Internet scrapings, some copyvio, no editorial oversight, per discussion.
 * Planespotters Net, planespotters.net - See archived discussions at WP:PLANESPOTTERS, also here, here, here and here.
 * Secret Projects, secretprojects.co.uk - discussion forum full of unreviewed user-generated content. A useful pointer to RS, but not an RS in itself.
 * SimpleFlying, simpleflying.com. Useful for information to follow up, but not reliable in itself. See this discussion.
 * Sky Corner - see Airwar.ru above.
 * ww2aircraft.net - discussion forum full of unreviewed user-generated content. A useful pointer to RS, but not an RS in itself.

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